United States v. Charlie Lawuary

EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

Charlie Lawuary pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine and was sentenced to life in prison. We affirmed. United States v. Lawuary, 211 F.3d 372 (7th Cir.2000). He filed and lost a collateral attack under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Lawuary v. United States, 199 F.Supp.2d 866 (C.D.Ill.2002). Almost a decade later, he filed in the district court what he styled a motion under Fed. R.Civ.P. 60(d)(1), asking the court to reopen the case. The judge treated this as a successive collateral attack, see Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524, 125 S.Ct. 2641, 162 L.Ed.2d 480 (2005), and…